On Friday night, a few minutes before midnight, Officer Grant Gouldie tried to stop the car 25-year-old Gulley was driving in the Scarboro neighborhood. Gulley reportedly tried to avoid being stopped and passed another vehicle on Houston Avenue, causing the vehicle to “almost travel off the roadway.”

Gouldie reported Gulley parked his car in the yard of 105 Houston Ave., got out, turned and looked at him and ran into the house.

The officer also went into the house, gave commands for Gulley to come out, and began searching for him when he failed to comply, reports said.

Gouldie reportedly found Gulley hiding in a shower. He also found two plastic bags, one containing “green leafy plant material” and one containing “whiteish hard substances suspected as crack cocaine.”

Gulley was handcuffed and taken into custody at that time, but when Gouldie tried to put him in a patrol car, Gulley reportedly ran again on foot.

When Officer Chris Bayless caught him, he was trying to get inside a home on South Dillard Avenue, reports said.

Gulley was sentenced in February 2011 to 60 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, after being indicted in June 2008 by a federal grand jury on cocaine charges. His indictment stemmed from an arrest by Oak Ridge police officers in May 2008 when they found 16.3 grams of crack cocaine and 2.2 grams of marijuana in his car during a traffic stop.

During that arrest, he also reportedly ran from police when officers tried to arrest him on the federal indictment. Reports said when he ran from officers, he dropped a bag containing about 31 grams of suspected cocaine.

Officers seized $1,059 from him, also. A 14-year-old boy was in the car with Gulley at the time of his arrest.

In addition to his drug arrests, Gulley was the victim of a shooting in December 2007 in Scarboro. He was shot twice in the abdomen by then 21-year-old Timothy Alajuwon Sanders, who lived on South Benedict Avenue, during an incident reportedly involving Sanders’ wife, Brandy Shareece Walker.

At the time of the shooting, she told officers she and Gulley were talking in the parking lot of the C&D Market & Deli on Carver Avenue, when her husband appeared and got into an argument with Gulley.

She told police her husband pulled out a handgun and shot Gulley.

Sanders is currently serving time in prison in connection with the shooting. His prison sentence is to end later this year.

Gulley was also arrested that year, 2007, after he allegedly fled from police after another gun-related incident in Scarboro. In that case, he reportedly pulled a gun on a resident during some type of confrontation.

In another incident earlier that year, he was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana during the undercover operation called Operation Crackdown. He was not part of the investigation but was arrested during a traffic stop when officers were serving warrants against others associated with the operation.

Gulley grew up in Oak Ridge and was a standout in Robertsville Middle School and Oak Ridge High School basketball programs.

He lived in Scarboro and Woodland neighborhoods before moving to Knoxville.